whatmodel.sh / Falcon2 11B (base)

Falcon2 11B (base) is an open-weights language model from TII, released May 2024. Its published size is 11.1B parameters and a 8k-token context window. Licence: falcon-llm.

Catalogue identity notes

tiiuae/falcon-11B @a4ab868 (created 2024-05-09, licence falcon-llm). TII Falcon2 11B pretrained model (May 2024; Falcon 2 licence, HF tag 'unknown'). Independent rows: EuroEval English (life_in_the_uk) and Open PT-LLM.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

HF safetensors metadata 11,102,822,400 parameters.

41.8±3.3#503 of 719 LLMsfrom 3 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Falcon2 11B (base), out of 828 with a score, then more from TII.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
592WizardCoder Python 13B V1.0 WizardLM42±2local~9.8GB2023-08
593Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B Nous Research42±1local~6.6GB2024-07
594Falcon2 11B (base) TII42±3local~8.2GB2024-05
595Granite 34B Code Base (8K) IBM42±1local~24GB2024-04
596speechless-starcoder2-7b uukuguy42±1local~6.1GB2024-03
more from TII
233Falcon-H1R 7B TII60±1local~6GB2026-01
332Falcon-H1 34B Instruct TII54±3local~23GB2025-05
494Falcon-H1 7B Instruct TII46±3local~6GB2025-05

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$ what it's good at

other tests3 not in a task · 95% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Polish EQ-Bench v2 (SpeakLeash)42.4% ✎▁··▁▁▂▂▆▅▆█▆ beats 12/70medium · avg 64%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 58%at its level
Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (9 Portuguese tasks)64.2% ✎▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂█▅▁ beats 108/276medium · avg 73%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 22%at its level · noisy
EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), test split, 5-shot, accuracy73.7% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▄█▄▃ beats 46/146easy · avg 83%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%at its level · noisy

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Falcon2 11B (base) · needs ~6.8 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf bartowski/falcon-11B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf bartowski/falcon-11B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Falcon2 11B (base) · needs ~6.8 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/bartowski/falcon-11B-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Falcon2 11B (base) · needs ~6.4 GB · from ollama.com
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run falcon2:11b

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/tiiuae ↗

$ how the score was worked out · SpeakLeash Polish EQ-Bench le… 58%, Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboa… 22%, EuroEval leaderboards (result… 15%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
SpeakLeash Polish EQ-Bench leaderboard1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 58%Apache-2.0
Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard (archived)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 22%Apache-2.0
EuroEval leaderboards (results collection), English generative leaderboard1▇▇▇▇ 15%MIT
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 5%
weighted average= 41.8

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